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And Now Hindu Terrorists?

by Asghar Ali Engineer

There are no Hindu terrorists or Islamic terrorists as no religion preaches terrorism. The arrest of Sadhvi Pragya should spur us to fight terrorism and not indulge into any religious name calling.

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Book Review: Islam In Post-Modern World

by Yoginder Sikand

As a plea for rethinking traditional understandings of religion to address a wide range of contemporary challenges, this book excels

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Terrorists Strike Again At Hyderabad

by Asghar Ali Engineer

Four months after bomb blasts in Mecca Masjid terrorists struck again in Hyderabad in the evening of 25th August at around 7.50 p.m. just when I started to go to Hyderabad airport after conducting workshops on peace and communal harmony and learnt about these blasts on reaching the airport around 8.20 p.m. It was a [...]

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Attack On Taslima: Love Of Islam Or Love Of Power?

by Asghar Ali Engineer

Dear Readers,I am pleased to annouce that Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, an important voice of reason from the Indian Muslim community, has allowed us to post his writings at Indian Muslims. Dr. Engineer is an Islamic scholar based in Mumbai and chair of Centre for Study of Society and Secularism. He writes a fortnightly column [...]

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Non-Muslims as Kafirs

by Mohib Ahmad

Asghar Ali Engineer is one of the foremost commentators amongst Indian Muslims. He writes extensively on the issues of contemporary importance. In this recent article, titled Quran and Other Religions, he tackles the important and much confused issue of the position of non-muslims in Islam.
An excerpt,
Why the Qur’an strongly condemns idol worship and shirk (i.e. [...]

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